This year’s 289.0nm Chicago Mackinac Race saw the fleet start in light to medium southeasterly winds and bright sunshine. By 2:00 pm, all boats were on their way north up to Mackinac Island. It ended up being a fast, thrilling race. Most of the fleet missed the Sunday AM storms. However, no one missed those on Saturday late evening, with lightning, squalls and rain. The J/111 fleet had 15 boats. Winning his first Chicago Mac…

Race Week Anacortes had lots of races over the three days in WA at the annual event held June 24-28. The seven-boat ORC C Division saw Bruce Chan’s J/111 65 RED ROSES II toss a third place to count just four firsts and two seconds for 8 points net to win with ease. Find event details at: https://yachtscoring.com/emenu.cfm?eID=16303.

The 19th edition of Long Beach Race Week concluded on Sunday, June 23 with a full complement of races sailed in 11 divisions, including six one-design classes and five PHRF fleets. Throughout the three solid days of racing conditions, the breeze rarely dropped below 14 knots and settled in the 16-18 knot range for the most part, blue skies prevailed, and temperatures were in the 80s. Winning the J/111 fleet was John Staff’s OBSIDIAN team…